Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-11-16
BADGER NEWS.

A GRAND union depot for Ashland is
a certainty, the ans for the build
ing having been sent to local contrac.
tors for estimates on the work by the
Wisconsin Central officials.
WILLIAM SHEADY has been held to
trial at Ashland in bonds of $1,000,
on charge of stealing an overcoat.
He went to Jail in default of sureties.
TWENTY young people OF Ashland
have organized an opera company
and during the winter will present
"The Little Tycoon"
THE people of Platteville have ar
ranged for q series of lectures during
the winter by well-known public
speakers.
DIPHTHERA is raging at Madison to
an extent to occasion alarm.
THE Ringing circus has gone into
winter quarters at Baraboo.
GEORGE HUXLEY, g. pioneer of Bav-
field, is dead at the age of so years.
JOHN MCCARTHY, coal-heaver, fell
killed.
THE delegate convention of fourth
class postmasters Of the state was
held at Eau Claire on the 9th, with
twelve delegates present.
A MOVEMENT is on foot in Milwau-
kee lookin g to the establishment of
Democratic morning paper.
e. FL. WEBER, of the Eau Claire
News, has been appointed superin-
tendent of the water works at that
place.
LUMBERMEN's supplies are carried
over the Wisconsin Central Railway
this year at g. reduction of 25 per
cent. from that of last year.
ABOUT 100000 of brick were
manufactured at Menomonee this sea-
son.
ROOD & MAXWELL expect to pay
creditors so cents on the dollar.
Door COUNTY votes $4,000 in aid
of the Wisconsin Midland Railway,
making $685. that has been sub.
scribed in aid OF the Peninsula
Branch.
THE governor has appointed A. d.
Thorp sheriff off Door County, vice
Thomas Scott, deceased, for the term
ending January /, 1889.
A DISPATCH OF the 9th says: Fire is
raging in the Trempealeau County
timber and is plainly visible from
Winona. About 100 Indian tepees
are located in this piece of woods and
many of their shanties have been
burned. The fire covers g. strip about
five miles long, up and down the river,
by two miles wide. The Indians are
focking to the village of Trem-
pealeau and to Winona, across the
river, by the dozens, and begging for
aid. In several instances the Indians
have barely escaped with their lives
and have lost all they had. Many
Of the Indians had as many as 10, 900
hoop poles cut for market and were
waiting for the river to freeze 80 that
they could draw them in on sleighs.
Fully 500 acres of timber is being de-
stroyed.
DANIEL O'CoNNoR, aged 7years, was
run over by a Cream City street car
at Milwaukee, on the 9Th, and SO
badly hurt that he died in few min
utes.
IT has been decided to open beer
hall on the grounds of the National
Home at Milwaukee, for the benefit of
the veterans.
The contract has been let for the
erection of the passenger depot at
Madison for the Chicago, Madison &
Northern to David Stephens, for SILL.
600. This is exclusive of stone and
brick, and will make the structure
hon Io,1+ COO O0O
CHARLES BURK, one of the men in
jured by the fall of fat-boat at Wis
consin River bridge, died of his inju-
ries at Prairie du CHEN on the 9Th.
The coroner's jury in the case of
Mrs. Lawrence. killed by train on a.
trestle near Madison, exonerated the
railway company from blame.
On the afternoon of the 7th
young man named Henry Steckelberg,
of Madison, aged 18 years, started to
go hunting in boat. He laid his
gun on the pier on Lake Monona, and
after stepping into his boat, endeav-
ored to pull it in also. In doing so
the trigger caught on board, and
the weapon was discharged, it's con-
tents entering his left side, mangling
his lung and lacerating other organs
SO terribly that he soon expired.
Two fatal accidents occurred at
Milwaukee on the 7th. John Dugan,
an old man, fell into grain hopper
in the ST. Paul elevator B, and was so
badly hurt that he died an hour after
being taken out. Another old man,
known only by the title OF "Christ,"
was run down and killed at the Mus
kego Avenue crossing OF the ST. Paul
Road.
GreenhOrnS at the ExnOSitiOn.